AI and Societal Robustness Conference

December 12th, 2025

Jesus College, Cambridge

Mission

As AI systems become increasingly integrated into critical infrastructure and key industries, questions of control, oversight, and institutional safeguarding become paramount. While there is widespread enthusiasm for AI automation and deployment, there remains a significant gap between cutting-edge AI security research and the practical knowledge needed by institutional decision-makers.


Focus Areas

⛓️‍💥 AI security

📈 Societal and economic impacts of AI

🛡️ Use-cases of AI that improve societal resilience

🤖 AI agency

⚙️ Interactive learning (workshops)

This one-day conference aims to bring together AI safety researchers and key stakeholders from industry, government, and cybersecurity. Through talks, workshops, and 1:1s, we will help institutions navigate AI deployment while maintaining resilience and security.

Keynote Speakers

To be announced

Call for Posters

The conference will have a poster session for researchers to present their work. Submit your abstracts of ~300 words above. Research should cover a technical, policy, or societal question in one of the listed conference topics. We welcome submissions from novel research, ongoing (incomplete) projects, drafts currently under review at other venues, as well as recently published results. Submissions will be reviewed by the UK AI Forum organising committee.

Key dates (all 23:59 GMT )

15 November – Abstract deadline

20 November – Acceptance notifications

1 December – Final poster PDF due

Posters will be in a dedicated room during the conference. We ask researchers to spend at least 30 minutes at their poster during the day (a timeslot will be assigned). Accepted poster presenters will automatically also be accepted to the conference.